Long before the Internet escaped from the lab, connected the planet and redefined what it meant to use a computer there was a brave and pioneering band of computer users who spent their time, money and sanity setting up their home computers and phone lines to welcome anyone who called. By using a modem, anyone else who knew the phone number of these computers could connect to them, leave messages, send and recieve files.... and millions did. They called these places "Bulletin Board...
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On November 22, 2012 Pete Norloff closed his OS2BBS site. These are the backup files from that site.
Topics: OS/2, OS/2 Warp, Shareware
Scans of message board and session dumps from the 8BBS bulletin board system. 8BBS ran from 1980 to 1982 in the SF Bay area of California and was one of the earliest publicly accessible message boards. In this relatively short run it was host to many notorious characters of the early hacking and phone phreaking scenes. This is Part 1, Version 1 - another "part" will be released if more logs are found. If Part 1 is re-processed (to improve readability or OCR) it will be released as...
Topics: bbs, hacking, hacker, phreak, phreaking, telephony, computer history
Hyperland is a 50-minute long documentary film about hypertext and surrounding technologies. It was written by Douglas Adams and produced and directed by Max Whitby for BBC Two in 1990. It stars Douglas Adams as a computer user and Tom Baker , with whom Adams had already worked on Doctor Who , as a personification of a software agent . In hindsight, what Hyperland describes and predicts is an approximation of today's World Wide Web . The self-proclaimed...
Topics: Hyperland, Douglas Adams, Tom Baker, Hypertext
a compendium of BBS text files you can learn from to get back at that annoying asshole, and make some good food, and novelty brick rocket stove designs all mixed in this one book.
Topics: BBS, textfiles.com, the, Crazy Bastards, cooking, rocket, stove
A collection of FidoNet messages dating from 1993-1999, scraped by Josh Renaud in 2015-16 from message boards "frozen in amber" on two BBSes. The largest set consists of more than 300,000 messages scraped in 2015 from FidoNet message boards on ExecPC BBS. The earliest messages in this set were posted in Nov. 1993 in a Ross Perot echo. ExecPC's connection to FidoNet seems to have gone down in June or July 1998. A handful messages were posted by local ExecPC users after that until...
Topics: fidonet, bbs, bbses, bbsing, bulletin board system, bulletin board systems, execpc bbs, exec pc...
An advertisement for the online service provider CompuServe, from the year 1988.
Topics: 1988, ad, advertisement, BBS, computer, CompuServe, ISP, online, service
Through eight episodes, director Jason Scott covers the 25 year history of the Dial-Up Bulletin Board System, a modem-connected computer system that let others connect to a computer over a phone line and leave messages and trade files. Containing 200 interviews, episodes mostly consist of elaborate montages of dozens of people composing a narrative. BAUD is an introduction to the start of the BBS. SYSOPS AND USERS is a montage of stories and thoughts on running BBSes. FIDONET covers the amateur...
Topic: Documentary
A list of toll free bbs's from 02/21/96 that includes list of features and software the bbs's used.
Topic: bbs
This is a collection of various BBS (Bulletin Board Systems) articles posted in the time between 1985 to 1988. Downloaded by modems and couplers that could go as fast as 2400 bits/s (!) These texts were public to everyone back then like if you would post an article in an internet forum today. It was a form of digital newspaper for computer enthusiasts that were the first ones to create something that later became the internet. But most of them were forgotten because the BBS were shut down. ...
Topics: BBS, Datex-P, BNT Stuttgart, PFM Stuttgart, A.U.G.E, Apple Users Group Europe, MicroTalk Stuttgart,...
LOGIC list of other local BBS Systems within the Greater Toronto dialing area. Revised by Blair Angus, updated September 18, 1995. LOGIC ( “Loyal Ontario Group Interested In Computers” ) was an Apple User Group & BBS based in Toronto. LOGIC ceased operations in January 2017. Their website was logicbbs.org .
Topics: BBS List, Toronto
Support Disks from The Talisman BBS, Upper Beaconsfield, Victoria, Australia Includes Software & Demo Commodore 64 1541 D64 images
Topics: Commodore 64, Talisman BBS
This is a flyer for the largest computer bulletin board system (BBS) in Birmingham, Alabama, attempting to get users to subscribe.
Topics: BBS, Birmingham, MATRIX
River City Magazine BBS (Austin, TX) direct mailer advertisement from 1986
Topics: BBS, Internet, vintage computer, online, 1986
Multiple List/Dialing directory convertor Featuring Telix 3.0
Topics: ms-dos,telix,bbs, bbs, modem
Mystic BBS 1.12 Alpha 41 was released on 27 December 2018 . Mystic BBS was conceived around the year 1995 when the author became frustrated by the lack of customization available with Renegade BBS , and first released to the public in late 1997 during a period when many BBS packages were seeing a decline (or a full stop) in development. Mystic is developed from the ground up with all original source code and is intended to be the spiritual successor to both Telegard and Renegade (two of the...
Topics: sofware, Mystic BBS, g00r00, Linux, linux software, bulletin board system, mysticbbs.com, alpha...
Source: http://mysticbbs.com/downloads/
Compu Data Serving IBM and MS-DOS Compatibles PCBoard 14.5/U 17 Nodes (609) 232-1245 Supporting 1200/2400/9600/19200/HST/V.32/V.42/MNP5 Turnersville, NJ Sysop: Phil Gordemer CoSysops: Updated Weekly! Call the world's only BBS that's not what it should be! Some of our fantastic features which you might encounter online are: 6 Nodes with invisible users eager to chat you 2 Fax lines with no numbers Self-Inducted Co-Sysops ready to help you New and improved Network system; it runs so well you...
Topics: bbs, scan, 90s, 1991, printer, dot matrix, ascii, ansi, ansi art, pcboard
Full Review of the WiFi232 Modem
Topics: Modern Vintage Gamer, BBS, WiFi232, Modem, Technology
An advertisement by the online service GEnie in 1991 which advertised the Japan RoundTable (basically a discussion area which contained a BBS, a chatroom, and a Library for permanent files) for people interested in "Japanimation" (now referred to as anime), and was basically an early anime forum.
Topics: anime, BBS, computer, chat, chatroom, electronic, electronics, file, files, genie, GEnie, internet,...
Restored from copy of Euphoria Online BBS system, this QWK Message Packet contains messages from the MajorNET BBS Message Network. This archive dates from July 1997. MajorNET was a BBS echo message network run by Galacticomm, available for MajorBBS and WorldGroup BBS Systems. This archive is in QWK Message Packet format. For reading this archive, you may use MultiMail Offline Reader (http://multimail.sourceforge.net/) or any other QWK-compatible reader.
Topics: bbs, worldgroup, majorbbs, qwk, echomail, messages, networks
"I got a batch of old cassette tapes containing recordings from a new defunct community radio station, CKIZ 90.5 FM, located in Pincher Creek, Alberta. While listening, digitizing, and cataloging the contents, I found this gem: an on-the-air ad for a local BBS. Hope you enjoy it, as I assume that radio ads for bulletin boards were pretty rare. (Fortunately the date of the recording was marked right on the tape: November 4, 1992!) The audio sounds overdriven, but that's (unfortunately) how...
Topics: bbs, radio ad
BBS Software for the Apple ][ line of computers
Topics: BBS, Apple II, Apple ][
According to another website it is apparently: "SVGA terminal package for calling RoboFX BBS systems and also features mouse control." or "Mouse Driven Fx-term Terminal Program Does Online" This seems to be a reference to "RoboBOARD/FX" which can be studied on Wikipedia. This program was available on BBSes in the mid to late 1990s. The terminst.exe file refers to itself as "FXterm 1.02". Jan 17 1994 FXT102.EXE Jan 17 1994 FXTERM.CMP Jan 14 ...
Topics: bbs, msdos
The BBS (bulletin board system) scene of the 80s and 90s was a magical time. Long before the Internet escaped from the lab, connected the planet and redefined what it meant to use a computer there was a brave and pioneering band of computer users who spent their time, money and sanity setting up their home computers and phone lines to welcome anyone who called. In the Summer of 2001, Jason Scott, a computer historian (owner textfiles.com) wondered if anyone had made a film about these BBSes....
Topics: PeerTube, video, Entertainment, BBS, Bulletin Board System, Internet, Jason Scott
Assembly Lines video podcast #106 Ahoy! We dive into the Captain's Quarters Apple II BBS, learn how to connect to it, and play some trivia games. Name-the-NPC contest: https://www.6502workshop.com/2019/11/win-naming-rights-to-nox-archaist-npc.html Telnet65 fixed for Uthernet in slot 1: https://archive.org/download/AssemblyLinesPodcast106.mp4/ip65_uthernet_slot1.dsk Telnet65 disk image: https://github.com/cc65/ip65/releases Disk Fixer: http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/products/apple2/diskcopiers.html...
Topics: Apple II, Retro Computing, BBS, telnet, modem
User Guide for GEnie (General Electric Network for Information Exchange), an ASCII text-based service by GE's Information Services division.
Topics: BBS, Atari, User Guide, Apple II, Comodore
Archive of files on http://community.netvillage.com Some details on worldgroup
Topics: BBS, Worldgroup
Metropoli BBS files (http://files.mpoli.fi//) (Taken 2/12/18 - 2/13/18) For the sake of sanity, does not include the unpacked section. It seems to just be a copy of the rest of the archive, except that everything that could be unpacked has been.
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Topics: Metropoli, BBS, FTP
Three BBS lists from the Northeast, circa 1990s. Contributed by Space Rogue of L0pht from his personal files. Notations have been lost to time; markings of various BBSes being added and deleted as they went down are by Space Rogue. These three example lists of BBSes in the 617 (Boston) and 207 (Lewiston) areas are typical of the time - a variety of sites for various purposes as well as reflecting some of both hacker and general BBSes.
Topic: BBS List
Terminal emulator software circa 1990. The install diskette (3.5 inch) says for IBM PC-DOS but I have used it fine under MS-DOS and through a DOS prompt in windows 95. You can use it to dial up to a BBS, for serial file transfer and direct to the modem. From the back of the box: "Runs on any IBM PC or PS/2, or 100% compatible, with DOS 2.0 or higher, at least 512k RAM, and a hard disk or two floppy drives. Works with over 50 different modem brands plus direct connections between...
Topics: BBS, Terminal, 1990, modem
excalibur bbs client and server
Topic: bbs
Proud to release an interview with Esquire from the legendary 1980's Class Racketeering BBS (517) Lansing Michigan.... This is from the IronFeather Journal archives. Cheers to all the old school BBS folks & C-64 users! (21 minutes)
Topics: bbs, lansing, c64
4Sale BBS door software.
Topic: bbs door
Topics: WARC, WARCs, wiki.mysticbbs.com, wiki, mysticbbs.com, mystic bbs, Mystic BBS, mysticbbs, software,...
Found this BBS download list file on a floppy. Figured it was worth saving.
Topics: BBS, textfile
A small textboard built for use by the Bibliotheca Anonoma, though it was later decided to stay on IRC.
Topics: Bibliotheca Anonoma, 4chan, BBS
hermes II mac BBS software
Topics: hermes, hermes II, bbs, mac, bulletin board
Pittsburgh L5 BBS goes online for the first time, November 26th, 1984.
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This is the story of The Stupid Computer BBS than existed in Atlanta, GA from 1990 to 1998,
Topic: patrick harvey mrgalaxy bbs wildcat 4 bbs stupid computer
TRS-80 Model 1 and Model III LindBergh Systems: Omniterm v153/v160 Patching for LDOS v513 and Later
Topic: TRS-80 Omniterm BBS
A listing of public Fidonet BBS systems in the UK, as of November 1991. The file 'ukfido.bbs' is a raw Fidonet data file covering UK nodes. The .txt version is a slightly processed copy of the same data, filtered to include only BBSes which were callable (at the time!)
Topics: Fidonet, BBS
This is a remix of the 'Art Scene' episode from the BBS Documentary series by Jason Scott that covers the entire world of Broadcast Bulletin Boards. This version is a recut of the original from about 49 minutes to 9 and includes some additional music and stuff. It is all about ANSI art and design and the creative scene that formed using it. Its filled with amazing digital art created long before Photoshop and the internet existed. If you are interested in this subject there is lots more...
Topics: BBS, art history, internet history,, documentary, Jason Scott, art scene, digital art, internet...
Introduction WWIVsys is a shareware utility designed to aid sysops running WWIV 4.xx. Created in the fall of 1994, the idea was to make a utility for configuring WWIV that was easy to use and that combined all the major sysop functions into one program. The documentation was written with the experienced WWIV sysop in mind. It has been divided by each topic on the Main Menu and gives a general description of each function. Some of the items in the various functions are self-explanatory and may...
Topics: BBS Programs and Utilities, WWIV
The Slimies The following person or entity has been judged to be the recipient of a Slimy Award at the Sixth Annual Slimy Awards BBQ and Award Presentation Event. Mace - Best Uploader Name & Award Category July 3rd, 1993 -- Backstory This comes from the BBS called Gateway BBS in the early 90's. It was running STadel, the Atari ST port of Citadel. The Sysop was Bob Kifferly (Kifferley?). I remember being a total ass on there but it was fun and they tolerated me.
Topics: bbs, scan, 90s, 1993, gateway, gateway bbs, stadel, citadel, fnadel, fido, fidonet, slimy, slimy...
This is a bunch of text files retrieved from a damaged disk image for the Crunchy Booger BBS. C.B. was a BBS that was around in the 1980's.
Topics: BBS, Text Files
The progrider BBS was shut down, and the admin released a bunch of the content from it.
Topic: bbs
Archivist and historian Jason Scott, and Wolfgang Staehle founder of The Thing BBS in conversation with Ben Fino-Radin, Digital Conservator for Rhizome at the New Museum of Contemporary Art.
Topics: bbs, preservation, conservation
Obfuscated's body but not his face, Improving personal FM transmitters, bootleg (promo) video of the BBS Documentary (Creator Jason Scott is in this Video), making GPSr attachments, Joe Klein Interview
Topics: TV, show, hack, BBS
Interview and discussion between moot and Hiroyuki. Both admins/owners of anonymous messageboards.
Topics: moot, hiroyuki, 4chan, 2channel, anonymous, imageboards, bbs, message boards, anonymity
Like City Lights, Receding: ANSi Artwork and the Digital Underground, 1985-2000 by Michael A. Hargadon. A Thesis in the Department of History, Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of Master of Arts (History) at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, March 2011. The rise of the Internet has obscured knowledge of the modes of mass online interaction that preceded it. Foremost amongst these was the Bulletin Board System (BBS), whose unique technological...
Topics: ANSI, BBS, Artwork, Digital, Undergound
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This 1.1MB ZIP file of texts represents the most complete collection available of the MindNet mailing list & Vericomm BBS, curated and distributed by Walter Bowart and others. The MindNet Journal was produced in cooperation with the Freedom Of Thought Foundation and the International Committee for the Convention Against Offensive Microwave Weapons. MindNet published articles on "mind control, directed-energy weapons, non-lethal weapons, ritual abuse, UFOs, electromagnetics, hypnosis,...
Topics: cybernetics, biophysics, bioelectromagnetics, biotelemetry, non-ionizing, radiation, non-lethal,...
Interview with the late Eli Sanford who organized the modern iteration of WWIV.
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Topics: BBS, WWIV
BBSing & Ansi, A bbs walkthough with commentary about my bbs experiances
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Topic: Eli,BBS,Osprey,osprey networks
"FidoNet - Computer network for exchanging information - The sociological study" Thesis about FidoNet.
Topics: FidoNet, BBS, sociology, thesis, dissertation
This is an overview and presentation of how to run, set up and use the Synchronet BBS software from a blindness prospective. The Vocal-Eyes and Window-Eyes screen readers were used as well as synthetic speech. This was never completed and all email addresses, lists, ftp and web sites are no longer valid. Note that only part I is actually complete, so the running time listed does not reflect the two excerpts of part II. This was originally recorded for "Main Menu" on ACB Radio. You can...
Topics: Spoken Word, Radio Shows, BBS
Source: Computer microphone
Twin Phreaks Si tratta di “Twin Phreaks”, la saga dell’imbranatissimo Jettero Heller alle prese con le BBS, i sysop, il phone phreaking, la seriale, l’handshake del modem ed altre amenità digitali. https://leganerd.com/2010/09/07/twin-phreaks-un-ricordo-della-telematica-che-non-ce-piu/
Topics: Twin Phreaks, Phreaks, Amiga, bbs, Jettero Heller, Pier's Group BBS
All American BBS .d64 files.
Topics: Commodore, C64, BBS
A chaotic collection of Wolf3D BBS stuff. Stay clear.
Topics: Wolfenstein 3D, BBS
OVERVIEW Have you ever wished you could find a communications program that wasn't a 150-300k program requiring a hard disk to run efficiently? One small enough to run in a DOS shell from a large application, without being totally stripped of essential features? Lync was written to fill this need. Occupying less than 55k of disk space and requiring less than 95k of free memory, Lync will operate on all but the most restricted of systems. And the menu driven interface means you don't have a long...
Topics: DOS, modem, BBS
From TWSYSOP.DOC: Trade Wars 2002 Version 2 The story continues... by Gary Martin and MaryAnn Martin @1:299/299 Many thanks also to Drew Markham, a.k.a. Videon Castle RavenLoft (913) 842-0300 and (913) 832-2888 From README.WB5: Release WideBeta 5 02-13-94 From TWUPDATE.FRM: 2.00 (Wide Beta...
Topics: dos, bbs, game
Sony computer Entertainment America Sony, Playstation, development, BBS BBS Messages Originally shared here: https://web.archive.org/web/20191109022605/https://www.assemblergames.com/threads/does-anyone-have-any-info-about-the-early-psx-os-sdk.69437/
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Topics: Sony, playstation, development, BBS
Unedited interview with Chris Obsorn (@FozzTexx) for Electric Dreams Podcast
Topics: BBS, Modems, Dial-up
This is a set of buffer captures from the final days of the Gateway Keyboard BBS in the St. Louis area from very early 1986, just before it shut down forever. This was one of the first BBSs I ever called, and it was run on a Lobo system, running TBBS, or "The Bread Board System" software, on either LDOS or CP/M. This file was re-assembled from several different capture files on one old 1541 (C64) disk image, originally made from one of my old 1541 disks.
Topics: bbs, stl, 314, tbbs
A cheat sheet for the RHINO Bulletin Board Service (BBS) from around 1986.
Topics: Atari, BBS, RHINO BBS
Live Music Archive
Librivox Free Audio
Metropolitan Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Internet Arcade
Console Living Room
Books to Borrow
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